scripting languages

On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 1:19 PM, Michael Torrie <torriem at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 11/08/2010 10:21 AM, Kenneth Burgener wrote:
> > stringing several external commands is more
> > complicated (very simple in bash an Perl), but Python does have good
> > readability and vast libraries, and is becoming the popular choice.
>> I used to think this as well. Then I realized I was using Python wrong.
> The only reason you string things together in Bash is usually because
> Bash really doesn't do much on its own. So you'd do something like:
>> ps ax | grep blah | grep -v grep | awk ' { print $1; }'
>> Whereas in Python you could simply execute the ps ax command and then
> process the output through generators as I describe in the like in my
> previous post.
>> With the expressive power of generators, it makes up quite nicely for
> the lack of easy subprocess piping.
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Or....
ps ax | awk '!/awk/ && /blah/ {print $1}'
:)